When will the power be back in Fergus County, MT?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Fergus County, MT right now.

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Elsewhere in Montana: 3 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 9:31 PM MDT.

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Who serves Fergus County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Fergus Electric Cooperative and NorthWestern Energy ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Hill County Electric Cooperative also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.

Outage history — Fergus County, MT

Last significant outage: Sep 30, 2026 — peaked at 387 customers, restored in ~30 min (no severe weather).

Across the 4 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.3 hr.

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Fergus County, MT

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 37 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~2 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.

That is shorter than the Montana norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3 hr.

Largest on record: ~4,252 customers out in April 2020, restored after about 7.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.

Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records, not events tracked live by this site.

Communities covered

Communities in Fergus County include Lewistown, Denton, Moore, Winifred, Grass Range, Ayers Ranch Colony, Brooks and Coffee Creek. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.

Common questions

How do I report a power outage in Fergus County, MT?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Fergus include Fergus Electric Cooperative, NorthWestern Energy and Hill County Electric Cooperative — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

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